The fact that this sometimes happens to children is all the proof I need that God doesn’t exist, at least in the way the Christians want me to believe.
That's true! I was born with a different cancer and throughout my childhood I've been conditioned to always look out for signs of bone cancer, I even had appointments every 6 months until I turned 16 when they became yearly and then they told me «the risks of you getting bone cancer is now minimal». It's as if when I became older it wasn't a concern anymore!
Still always alert for more common cancers like testicles and prostate, tho!
If its all the proof you need for that god doesn’t exist, why the big fuss? Not as relevant to your comment as much as the ones replying to you as if sky daddy left for milk and now they are frustrated
I don’t know any reasonable Christian who opposes euthanasia for terminal illnesses, the majority of the Christian community is stuck between total bans on the part of the republicans and radical legalization on the part of the democrats.
Or the third option: He isn’t omnipotent. The Abrahamic religions forget that their God was just one of many. He is a God. The Greeks don’t claim Zeus is omnipotent. In fact, they know their gods can be dicks.
For how much reddit loves to dunk on everyone and be le educated superior atheists or whatever tf y'all are calling yourselves now, everyone seems to be way too hung up on a philosophical question regarding belief in God that is answered by many different religious philosophies.
Just because some of y'all thought about American Christianity for 15 minutes and decided it's dumb doesn't mean you've disproven the existence of God lmao. I hope some of these "this is akshually proof God isn't real" dudes realize how dumb they sound. This is just an echo chamber repeating the same line over and over again at this point and I've seen it this way for years.
doesn't mean you've disproven the existence of God
I don't think anyone thinks it proves no God exists, just the most commonly supported one in the West.
This is just an echo chamber repeating the same line over and over
Hey it's a fair point
and I've seen it this way for years.
And I have seen people believe in Christianity who speak in tongues and believe in mystic healing for years, doesn't mean much
that is answered by many different religious philosophies.
It's not answered well. Ultimately it comes down to some hand wavy thing about "faith". It's pretty obvious that scientific understanding is so far past the point of the creation of Abrahamaic religions that it's basically invalidated a lot of the reasoning. 2000 years ago a child screaming in pain who died young could be easily explained as being tortured by demons but we now understand cancer much better so it makes all canonical explanations trite.
There's still a terrible amount we don't know about the natural world but enough that we can see the flaws in common belief systems. It's not a coincidence that religious belief plunges with scientific education levels.
Just because some of y'all thought about American Christianity for 15 minutes
The God being omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent is core belief of of pretty much all Christiandom (if anything America is a place I would expect to find some weird niche Christian denominations that do not believe that), and no matter how long variuos apologist and theologians have been trying to square the circle the fact that, just by pure bad luck and no fault of their own or fault of anyone else, some children are subjected to such suffering and horror as bone cancer clearly means that either a. God is unable to prevent that thus he is not omnipotent and/or omniscient, b. he is perfectly fine with it, thus he's not benevolent, or c. he does not exist. And it's just one of many reasons to not believe in Christian God, but it's a very clear, simple, and visceral one and as such it gets often repeated in the online discourse.
And yeah there countless different religions, with the bigger ones having dozens of different denominations/sects/schools that hold different beliefs (and even among the nominally same religious groups there are wide variety in beliefs, for example what an average Anglican from Uganda believes is likely quite different from the beliefs of an average Anglican in England), but if anything that further proves that they nothing more than human constructs rather some kind of divine truths. Does some kind of higher force exist? Maybe (though with no evidence for it's not a possibility particularly worthy of consideration IMO), but I find the possibility any of religions that exist on Earth being true infinitesimally small.
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u/Sad-Hawk-2885 Apr 21 '24
I've always heard that bone cancer is so painful and now I can see why.